Infoblox Integrates IPAM and NCCM

Infoblox unveiled NetMRI 4.3, which integrates Infoblox’s (News - Alert) Grid based IP address management (IPAM) with the company’s recently acquired network change and configuration (NCCM) capabilities.

The integration between IPAM and NCCM provides the automation, visibility and control over many of the traditionally manual IT tasks and procedures, ultimately helping increase business uptime, reduce cost and increase IT efficiency.

For many organizations, lack of automation is becoming a major barrier to network expansion and the broad adoption of initiatives like virtualization and cloud computing. Before virtualization, networks remained fairly static. As virtualization is adopted and to realize its full benefit, automating network changes will be the only way to keep pace with changing network requirements. This is compounded by the explosion of IP addresses, significantly increasing the need for detailed information and visibility of the physical and virtual environments.

Jim Frey of Enterprise Management Associates commented in a recent report, “There is little if any hope for manual processes to keep pace with the rate of change introduced by server virtualization and cloud services – the only reasonable answer is automation. In this case, network managers could benefit greatly from tighter automation and control around IP address management as an essential aspect of maintaining a highly functional, highly performing network.”

Steve Nye, executive VP of Product Strategy and Corporate Development commented, “The combination of our proven real-time distributed network data management technology – already in use by more than 4,500 customers and 200 of the Global 500 – with the configuration, analysis and discovery capabilities provided by NetMRI will address mounting enterprise needs to dramatically increase the visibility and control required to handle the ever-increasing size and complexity of today’s networks.”